overflow, high turnout, a symbolic vote against tough national security laws.

Pro-democracy activists during primary elections in Hong Kong on Sunday.   Isaac Lawrence/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

A protest vote in Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s opposition party said on Sunday that over 600,000 residents of the city cast ballots in primaries that some viewed as a symbolic vote against tough national security laws.

The unofficial poll will decide the strongest pro-democracy candidates to contest elections in September for Hong Kong’s Legislative Council. The party is aiming for a majority in what is usually a pro-Beijing body by riding a wave of anti-China sentiment stirred by the new laws.

Though the primaries are only for the opposition camp, participation can be seen as a gauge for popular opinion. It remains to be seen whether Beijing’s new powers will make that path impossible.

Quotable: “A high turnout will send a very strong signal to the international community, that we Hong Kongers never give up,” said Sunny Cheung, 24, one of a batch of aspiring young democrats out lobbying and giving stump speeches.

India, which closed down early and then reopened to save its battered economy, is now racking up about 30,000 new reported infections each day — more than any other country except the United States and Brazil. And it is rapidly catching up to Brazil. With more than 850,000 cases nationwide, hospitals in India are overflowing.

    you soften it with showers and bless its crops.
11 You crown the year with your bounty,
    and your carts overflow with abundance.
12 The grasslands of the wilderness overflow;

英語での overflow の意味

overflow

verb

UK 

 /ˌəʊ.vəˈfləʊ/ US 

 /ˌoʊ.vɚˈfloʊ/

overflow verb (TOO FULL)

C2 [ I or T ]

When a liquid overflows, it flows over the edges of a container, etc. because there is too much of it:

The milk overflowed when I poured it into the jug.

Because of heavy rain, the river may overflow its banks.

[ I or T ]

If a container or a place overflows, whatever is inside it starts coming out because it is too full:

Oh no, the sink is overflowing all over the floor.

The bin was overflowing with rubbish.

C2 [ I ]

When a place overflows, or people or things overflow from somewhere, some people or things have to come out because it cannot contain them all:

The bar was so full that people were overflowing into/onto the street.

His room is overflowing with books.

UK The train was full to overflowing (= so full that there was not space for any more passengers).

 to overflowing

so that water or another substance is almost coming over the top:

Someone had filled the sink to overflowing.

UK The sink was full to overflowing.